Overwhelmingly, women choose Smith for its outstanding academic reputation. That’s as it should be; as one of the nation’s top liberal-arts colleges, Smith exists to promote the life of the mind. If you want intellectual challenge, you are free to choose from more than 1,000 course offerings in more than 50 areas of study in the social sciences and history, the arts, languages, literature, mathematics and the natural sciences. And whether you come to Smith with a specific career goal in mind or are unsure of your educational direction, you’ll be encouraged to explore many fields of knowledge.